Dan Bivona

Biography

As a scholar, Dan Bivona has published three books on 19th and 20th century British literature and culture as well as a co-edited collection and a number of essays. He counts among his fields of interest 19th and 20th century fiction, travel literature, the literature of Empire, literary theory, 19th century sexuality, and science and literature. His recent work has taken him to the study of animal architecture and 19th century theories of mind.

Bivona came to ASU in 1996 after teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Tenured in 1999, he served successively as associate chair of the English department (1998-2000), chair of English (2000-2002), associate dean for academic programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) (2002-2004), and divisional dean of undergraduate programs (2004-2007). While serving in the latter two positions Bivona was responsible for organizing the CLAS Learning Communities Institute.

Robbins, Bruce. Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State by Bruce Robbins. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP, 2007. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 49 (February 2008).

Parsons, Neil. King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes (Chicago and London: the University of Chicago Press, 1998) in Research in African Literatures 31.3 (Fall 2000): 206-8.

“The Experience of Animal Architecture: Nineteenth Century Theories of Mind.” Architecture and Experience in the Nineteenth Century conference. St. John’s College. Oxford. March 17-18, 2016.

“The Failure of Replication in Nineteenth Century Literature: Why it all just comes out wrong.” Symposium on Replicas and Replication. Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, TX. April 10, 2015 [invited].

“The Failure of Replication in Nineteenth Century Literature: Why it all just comes out wrong.” Symposium on Replicas and Replication. Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, TX. April 10, 2015 [invited].

“Scholarship as Criminality: The Public and Scholarly Life of Eugene Aram.” North American Victorian Studies Association conference. Nashville, TN (November 3-5, 2011).

“An Intellectual on the ‘Disintegrating’ Effects of Intellect: Benjamin Kidd’s Social Evolution and the Problem of Intellect.” British Association of Victorian Studies conference. Birmingham, UK. (September 1-3, 2011).

“ ’The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’: the Changing Face of Hyde in Twentieth Century Hollywood Film Versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” “Popular Darwinism” panel (Panel organizer). Southwest Texas PCA/ACA conference. Albuquerque, NM (February 10-13, 2010).

"Aesthetic Instinct and Sexual Taste: Krafft-Ebing and the Instinct of the Perverse." North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, September 29-October 1, 2005, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

“The House in the Child and the Dead Mother in the House: Sensational Problems of Household Management.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Notre Dame London Center, London, UK, July 8-10, 2003.

"Inquisition as Behavioral Determination: Is Acting 'One of Us' All There Is To Being 'One of Us'?" Joseph Conrad Society Conference, Drexel University, Philadelphia, April 10-13, 1997.

Bivona, Daniel. "Scholarship as Criminality: The Public and Scholarly Life of Eugene Aram.". North American Victorian Studies Association, Nashville, TN (Nov 2011).

Bivona, Daniel. " The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it: the Changing Face of Hyde in Twentieth Century Hollywood Film Versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Southwest Texas PCA/ACA conference (Feb 2010).

Bivona, Daniel. Masculinities and Modern Literature. Western Conference on British Studies (Oct 2009).

Service

North American Victorian Studies Association, Board Member (2014 - 2016)